Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD on Old World Mac
To: Allen Wong <allen@submoron.org>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/26/2007 21:02:43
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Hello,

On Dec 26, 2007, at 20:43, Allen Wong wrote:

> -> Then - the state of SMP support for old world Macs in -current is
> -> unknown because nobody has hardware to test on. When you get the
> -> machine to boot please try a -current SMP kernel and tell us  
> where it
> -> explodes ;)
> ->
>
> I built a GENERIC.MP kernel (removing support for the MACE ethernet  
> driver)
> using the latest source.  It fails here:
>
>>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.10
>>> (builds@b1.netbsd.org, Tue Oct 31 04:33:41 UTC 2006)
> no active package6684408+238048 [320256+307231]=0x733814
>  start=0x100000
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,  
> 2005,
>     2006, 2007
>     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> NetBSD 4.99.45 (GENERIC.MP) #1: Wed Dec 26 17:29:00 PST 2007
>         allen@job.slackula.com:/usr/obj/sys/arch/macppc/compile/ 
> GENERIC.MP
> total memory = 160 MB
> avail memory = 146 MB
> found Grand Central PIC at f3000000
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: 604e (Revision 0.2), ID 0 (primary)
> cpu0: HID0 8000c084<EMCP,ICE,DCE,SGE,BHT>, powersave: 1
> cpu0: 181.82 MHz
> cpu1 at mainbus0:CPU 1 didn't start

Ewww. Well, at least that narrows it down considerably.

Thanks for testing!
Michael
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